Week 2 of the NFL season showed the Giants might be OK, but the Jets might not.
Carlos Rodon pitched well against the Pirates on Sunday but not well enough to guide the Yankees to a win against a team 10 games under .500.The last two major starting pitcher acquisitions for the Yankees were both on display Sunday, with Carlos Rodon looking to deliverand Frankie Montas back in action — with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — for the first time this season after spending most of it rehabbing since having shoulder surgery in February.
Despite their respective track records, it’s hard to imagine two significant deals going worse for the Yankees, who traded for Montas at last year’s trade deadline from the A’s when they missed out on Luis Castillo and then signed Rodon to a huge, six-year, $162 million contract in the offseason after two standout years in a row.
Perhaps if one of them pitched to expectations, the Yankees would still have a legitimate shot at the postseason instead of being reduced to a potential spoiler role against Toronto — in a pair of series — and Arizona. And as they likely head back into the free agent and trade markets to fortify their rotation for 2024, they’ll have to evaluate what went wrong in both transactions, as the Montas deal hurt their chances in ‘22 and again this year and Rodon’s dud of a season — when he was supposed to be a lefty ace alongside Gerrit Cole — made it impossible for the Yankees to get anything going in ‘23.Deion Sanders has already led Colorado to two more wins this year than the school recorded last season.
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